NeoCraft
Subtitle: modernity and the crafts
By: edited by Sandra Alfoldy.
Contributors: Alfoldy, Sandra, 1969-
Publisher: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Halifax, N.S
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780919616479
Subjects: Decorative arts -- Philosophy; Design -- Philosophy; Modernism (Art)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Replacing the myth of modernism / Bruce Metcalf; title: The fate of craft / Larry Shiner; title: Making space for clay? ceramics, regionalism, and postmodernism in Regina, Saskatchewan / David Brian Howard; title: Australia and New Zealand: design and the handmade / Grace Cochrane; title: Lost in translation? Giorgio Armani and the textualities of touch / John Potvin; title: Redressing the history of the clothing trade: ready-made apparel, guilds, and women outworkers, c. 1650-1800 / Beverly Lemire; title: Handmade identity: crafting design in Ireland from partition to the troubles / Joseph McBrinn; title: Entangled technologies: recrafting social practice in Piña textile production in the Central Philippines / B. Lynne Milgram; title: Making it Irish: the politics of embroidery in late nineteenth-century Ireland / Janice Helland; title: Pure magic: the power of tradition in Scottish arts and crafts / Elizabeth Cumming; title: Ukrainian craft revival: from craft to avant-garde, from "folk" to national / Alla Myzelev; title: Sensory basket weaving 101 / David Howes; title: Otherwise unobtainable: the applied arts and the politics and poetics of digital technology / Tanya Harrod; title: Rethinking dichotomies: crafts and the digital / Love Jönsson; title: Handmade futures: the emerging role of craft knowledge in our digital culture / Mike Press.